Finance & Fury Podcast

Welcome to Finance and Fury - Is ESG investing the way of the future and good for your portfolio? Within the last few years, large publicly listed companies and investment managers investment are really paying attention to what is known as an ESG score – which stands for environmental, social and governance – it is meant to be used as a determinant on the sustainability of investments – the concept of sustainability it is growing in prominence in every sector of the economy, but particularly within institutional investments and publicly listed companies   In this episode – I want to look at what is ESG, how it is determined and scored, and can following this trend and only investing in ESG companies help your bottom line when it comes to long term returns?   To take a step back – society has been moving towards greater levels of sustainability and environmentalism – with this shift – Publicly listed Companies are becoming concerned with where they fit into this – as well as investment managers wishing to purc